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Metrodora

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Ancient Greek physician

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Metrodora was possibly the author of an ancient Greek medical text, On the Diseases and Cures of Women. She is known from a single Byzantine manuscript.

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The Laurentian manuscript on which Metrodora's work is preserved. The beginning of the Metrodora text is after the cross in the left-hand margin.

Metrodora on the Pioneers mural in Barcelona

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Metrodora was possibly the author of an ancient Greek medical text, On the Diseases and Cures of Women. She is known from a single Byzantine manuscript. The manuscript, in the collection of the Laurentian Library in Florence, is a collection of writings on medical topics; the first part, attributed to Metrodora, focuses on obstetrics and women's medicine.